COLLECTION OF MATERIAL Comprising: ANNUAL REPORT OF THE PORTO RICO AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENTAL STATION FOR 1906, 1937 and 1939 (Supplied in the Spanish Version as well as English). The Reports for 1911-1930 bound in four volumes. Buckam, leather labels, original wrapps. bound in, the rest of the Reports in their original wrapps. Washington, 1907-1942.
FEDERAL EXPERIMENT STATION ... PUERTO RICO CIRCULARS Numbers 2-4, 6-13, 15-23 and 25, being 21 items [only]. Original wrapps. Mayaguez/San Juan/Washington, 1904-1945.
FEDERAL EXPERIMENT STATION IN PUERTO RICO BULLETINS. Numbers 11-43 [only]; Bulletins 11-30 bound in two vols., buckram, leather labels, original wrapps. bound in, the rest in their original wrapps. Washington 1911-1945.
Collection of 91 items in total.
£110.00 [ref: 183790]
AGRICULTURE OF ALABAMA. Montgomery, Alabama 1930.
Sm. thin 4to. 135pp. + [ii]. Folding map and 11 charts.Ex.-lib. with bookplate, sm. ink stamp to verso of t.p., t.p. and margins very lightly browned, rebound in lib. cloth with gilt title to spine, original upper wrapp. bound in.
£10.00 [ref: 169319]
THE HISTORY OF THE RISE AND PROGRESS OF THE KILLERBY, STUDLEY AND WARLABY Herds of Shorthorns. William Ridgway 1867.
Crown 8vo. viii + 158pp. Frontis. Sm. closed tear to fore-edge of p.41-44, frontis. lightly spotted, unobtrusive blind embossed ownership stamp to front f.e.p., lightly soiled and rubbed cloth with gilt title to upper board, corners sl. bumped, head and tail of spine sl. chipped.
£125.00 [ref: 194769]
TABLES Adapted to the use of Farmers and Graziers; Calculated to Ascertain the Quantity of Land which may be worked with Agricultural Implements of various Dimensions, in a given Space of Time; Affording Important Assistance, both to Employers and Labourers; Also, TABLES for reducing measures, of various capacity, to the standard of the Winchester Bushel: Together with Tables shewing, on New Principles, the Net Priftable Weight of Cattle ... Dedicated, by Permission, to The Right Honourable Lord Somerville by ... London: Printed for the Author ... 1813.
Thin 8vo. viii + 103pp. + [i] errata. Some sporadic light spotting, faint pencil annotations to verso of front f.e.p., upper hinge tender, half morocco with marbled boards, rubbed, corners sl. bumped, gilt bands to sl. rubbed spine bumped at head and tail.
Perkins 387.
£48.00 [ref: 142452]
REPORT ... TO INQUIRE INTO SWINE FEVER: With Minutes of Evidence, Index, and Appendices. Part II. Minutes of Evidence, Appendices, and Index. Presented to both Houses ... HMSO 1893.
Sm. folio. iii + 272pp. Original wrapps. bound in, ex.-Univ. College of North Wales with bookplate and ink stamps to prelims., rebound in cloth, gilt lettered spine sl. faded.
[C. 6999-I].
£25.00 [ref: 136869]
REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENTAL COMMITTEE Appointed by the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries to Inquire into and Report upon the Subject of Agricultural Education in England and Wales, With Copy of the Minutes Appointing the Committee and Appendices. [and] MINUTES OF EVIDENCE ... Presented to both Houses ... HMSO 1908.
2 works bound in 1. Sm. folio. iv + 48pp. + xiii + 645pp. Folding map. Ex.-Univ. College of North Wales with bookplate and ink stamps to prelims., rebound in cloth, gilt lettered spine darkened.
[Cd. 4206; 4207].
£25.00 [ref: 136868]
THE ELEMENTS OF AGRICULTURE. Translated from the Original French, And Revised by Philip Miller. Printed for P. Vaillant and T. Durham 1764.
1st English Ed. 2 vols. xx + 445pp. + [viii] + 343pp. 14 folding copper plates. Light sporadic browning, contemporary gilt rule edged speckled calf, upper joint tender to vol. 1., gilt lettered title labels with sm. paper labels to tails of spines.
Fussell, pp.48-9; Kress, S4335.
Duhamel was a protagonist of Tull’s methods, and this book rekindled interest in drill husbandry which had waned soon after Tull’s death in 1741.
£250.00 [ref: 168964]
TEXT-BOOK OF EGYPTIAN AGRICULTURE. Cairo National Printing Department 1908-10.
2 vols. 878pp. 11 plates, numerous ills. Some browning, original gilt lettered cloth, minor marking.
Ministry of Education, Egypt.
£40.00 [ref: 184016]
LE NOUVEAU PARFAIT MARÉCHAL, Ou La Connoissance Générale et Universelle du Cheval, Divisé en Sept Traites. 1. De sa Construction. 2. Du Haras. 3 De l’Ecuyer & du Harnois. 4. Du Médecin, ou Traité des Maladies des Chevaux. 5. De Chirurgien & des Opérations. 6. Du Maréchal Serrant. 7. De l’Apoticaire, ou des Remedes. Avec un Dictionnaire des Termes de Cavalerie. Paris Chez Prault ... 1755.
3rd Ed. 4to. Rubric t.p. [iv] + (*-[4*4i]) + 641pp. Port. frontis., head and tail pieces, 29 folding plates, 20 botanical plates. Sporadic light marginal staining, some light browning, marbled e.ps., contemporary mottled calf, corners rubbed, dec. gilt compartments and sl. chipped gilt lettered title label to spine, chipped with loss, upper joint cracked to head and tail and with sm. worm hole to upper board.
François Alexandre de Garsault (1693-1778).
£450.00 [ref: 188452]
ENCYCLOPÆDIA OF AGRICULTURE By the most Eminent Authorities. William Green & Sons, Edinburgh & London 1909.
Reprint. 4 vols. Royal 8vo. Profusely illus. with many ills. from photos., 37 cold. plates of animal anatomy and diseases. E.ps. lightly spotted with f.e.ps. browned, lower hinge in vol. 3 sl. split, original morocco backed cloth boards with gilt title to spines, fore-edge of upper board to vol.4 sl. waterstained.
£45.00 [ref: 181136]
